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Found Deals and Discounts / AVG Anti-Virus 2012 93% Off Today

« Last post by erikts on March 11, 2012, 08:32 PM »

Get the commercial AVG Anti-Virus 2012 for only $2.95 through today!

The commercial edition of AVG Anti-Virus offers enhanced online protection and free technical support and a license to use for your home office or small business.

We're offering AVG Anti-Virus 2012, along with a 1-PC license, for $2.95, saving 93% off MSRP!

http://giveaway.downloadcrew.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Get myVault at 100% off Today at BitsDuJour

« Last post by erikts on March 11, 2012, 08:28 PM »

Get myVault at 100% off Today Only! Securely Archive Anything and Everything!

Got sensitive documents or images that need protecting? MyVault is your place to securely archive anything and everything to keep it safe from prying eyes. Get this Mac and PC software with a 100% Coupon Discount from Bits du Jour.

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/myvault

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] Text Filter - portable, search-as-you-type text file viewer

« Last post by erikts on February 22, 2012, 08:01 PM »

The link to portable version still works. Today I get version 1.5. Thanks to musetips for the tool.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PDFZilla free for 20 days - Ends 14 March 2012

« Last post by erikts on February 22, 2012, 03:02 AM »

Thanks for the head up. I had trialed the software a few months ago. So this giveaway is a bless.

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Living Room / Re: Quietly brilliant piece of technology - the NEST thermostat

« Last post by erikts on February 07, 2012, 01:22 AM »

Honeywell Files Patent Lawsuit Against Smart Thermostat Developer Nest

Interestingly, Honeywell recently told GigaOm that it killed off its smarter, learning thermostats years ago, instead focusing on ‘adding intelligence to digital and connected thermostats.

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Living Room / Re: Ripped off as an employee? "Free food" + the employment contract.

« Last post by erikts on January 25, 2012, 04:39 AM »

Take the trouble to learn about and understand useful negotiating skills/techniques.
-IainB (January 22, 2012, 03:49 AM)

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

Your salary negotiation — which routinely takes less than 5 minutes to conclude — has an outsized influence on what your compensation is. Compensation can include money or things which are more-or-less fungible replacements for money, but it can also include interesting things which you value from “more time with your family” to “opportunities to do tasks which you find fulfilling” to “perks which make a meaningful difference in your day-to-day quality of life.” That makes your negotiation five very important minutes. You generally can’t do a totally bang up job on any five minutes of work this year and have your boss give you an extra $5,000. You can trivially pick up $5,000 in salary negotiations just by sucking less.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why would brand new software NOT work with Unicode? / Challenges

« Last post by erikts on January 13, 2012, 01:53 AM »

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
by Joel Spolsky

... A couple of years ago, a beta tester for FogBUGZ was wondering whether it could handle incoming email in Japanese. Japanese? They have email in Japanese? I had no idea. When I looked closely at the commercial ActiveX control we were using to parse MIME email messages, we discovered it was doing exactly the wrong thing with character sets, so we actually had to write heroic code to undo the wrong conversion it had done and redo it correctly. ...

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Humble Indie Bundle 4 is now live

« Last post by erikts on December 20, 2011, 11:46 PM »

$1 Min. Price For Getting Steam Keys

Hey guys, we’ve noticed that a number of un-humble users are buying lots of Humble Indie Bundle 4’s for one penny, and then using their Steam codes to “legitimize” automated Steam accounts in order to increase their odds of winning prizes in Valve’s current raffle promotion.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 24-Hours Giveaway - VX Search Pro

« Last post by erikts on November 01, 2011, 05:36 AM »

It is on GotD http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/vx-search-pro-v3-4-38

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 24-Hours Giveaway - VX Search Pro

« Last post by erikts on October 24, 2011, 05:22 AM »

Thank you!

I've just installed the program and tried a simple search to find text file (TXT) file. When I double-click in the search result pane, the program shows file properties instead of opening it according to file association (in this case open with Notepad). I also miss standard context menu like in Windows Explorer or Everything.

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Living Room / Privacy alert: Verizon is now monitoring your mobile Web habits

« Last post by erikts on October 12, 2011, 09:44 PM »

Verizon is making a significant change to its privacy policy for mobile users -- and by default, you're opted in.

"Verizon is making a significant change to its privacy policy for mobile users this week. By default, the company will now use a bunch of your info for "certain business and marketing reports" and for "making mobile ads you see more relevant.""

Read more

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Living Room / Re: AWOL

« Last post by erikts on July 24, 2011, 09:21 PM »

I'm glad you come back.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: StartSSL.com Certificate Provider: Mini-Review

« Last post by erikts on June 20, 2011, 10:41 PM »

Perhaps it is important news. I read in The Register that StartCom, which operates StartSSL, suffered a security breach that occurred last Wednesday.

Web authentication authority suffers security breach

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Living Room / Re: Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading List

« Last post by erikts on April 29, 2011, 09:45 PM »

A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay
-joiwind (April 29, 2011, 04:13 PM)

+1. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1329

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Living Room / Re: Happy Birthday Renegade!

« Last post by erikts on April 23, 2011, 02:37 AM »

I wish you a very happy birthday!

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Living Room / Re: What are some of the best e-book lay-outs you've seen?

« Last post by erikts on March 04, 2011, 01:58 AM »

I read many e-books from changethis.com and right now I am reading The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by erikts on January 05, 2011, 12:19 AM »

Working With You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work
Katherine Crowley and Katherine Crowley Page
[ review ]

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by erikts on December 29, 2010, 08:22 PM »

I use T-Clock 2010 but I don't have external speaker.

My wish: Allow user to use PC Speaker's beep for hourly chime.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want a game for Christmas: turn-based

« Last post by erikts on December 21, 2010, 01:13 PM »

In addition, in case anyone else is hunting around similarly:

The original X-COM, "UFO: Enemy Unknown" ticked so many boxes for me. It's the only game I've ever played through three full times. There's an updated version which is really nice here: http://ufo.ufo-extraterrestrials.com/ - and it's only $4.99!?
-timns (December 21, 2010, 09:15 AM)

Similar game I played several years ago:
UFO - Alien Invasion
http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/News

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General Software Discussion / Re: OpenOffice.org's Calc cancels MS Excel sheet protection

« Last post by erikts on December 17, 2010, 01:40 AM »

That's strange too. Can anyone open the file here (mediafire) or here (Let's Crate) in your version of Excel / Calc and confirm the behaviour?

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General Software Discussion / OpenOffice.org's Calc cancels MS Excel sheet protection

« Last post by erikts on December 17, 2010, 01:09 AM »

I prepared worksheet for a client using Excel 2007. I locked certain cells and protected the sheet using Review|Protect Sheet menu.

For compatibilty, I opened it in OpenOffice.org Calc (version 3.2.0) and found out that it canceled the Excel's sheet protection; all locked cell can be altered.

Is it a bug in Excel or in Calc?

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